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2024 Most-Viewed Books on RGC Website

February 16, 2025 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

As we turn the page on 2024 and step into a new chapter of reading in 2025, we’re taking a moment to spotlight the 20 most-viewed books on the RGC website over the past year. While not all of these titles were published in 2024, they certainly captured your attention!

How many of these standout reads made it onto your list? And which ones are heading straight to your TBR? This year’s RGC reading wrap-up celebrates a diverse mix of genres—fiction, nonfiction, and young adult—along with a variety of formats!

1. Absolution

by Alice McDermott

One of our recommended books is Absolution by Alice McDermott

 

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Best of the Best Books 2024

January 16, 2025 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

Our “best of the best” returns for 2024! We’ve reviewed the end-of-year best book lists and narrowed them down into one reference guide.

Overwhelmed by what to read from the past year? We’ve gathered the fiction, nonfiction, and young adult titles we recommended in 2024 that also appear on at least one of the favorite lists from:

BookRiot, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal, Bookpage, New York Times, Publishers Weekly, School Library Journal, Washington Post,

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Most Popular Books 2024

January 09, 2025 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists

We’ve gathered the most popular books in 2024 for a look back at the year! In each of our monthly newsletters, we share the top two most-viewed titles on the Reading Group Choices site for that month.

Here are the titles — a mix of fiction and nonfiction — that caught our readers’ attention from January to December: the most popular books in 2024. Do you remember these great reads? See if they match your own group’s most popular books…

January

One of our recommended books is Under the Whispering Door by TJ KluneOne of our recommended books is Birnam Wood by Eleanor Catton

1. Under the Whispering Door
by TJ Klune

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Reading Group Choices Favorite Books Survey

January 01, 2025 Annual Favorite Books, Bookmark
Reading Group Choices

The Reading Group Choices annual favorite books survey

The 2024 Annual Favorite Books Survey Is Open!

Each year Reading Group Choices sends out a survey to learn more about you, our readers, and your favorite books from the year. When you enter the survey you are also entered to win a $100 gift certificate to your local bookstore, five copies of Reading Group Choices’ 30th anniversary edition, and a RGC totebag!

Based on your responses, we create an annual list of the most popular books and highlight the survey winners.

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Great Group Reads 2024

November 21, 2024 Bookmark, Themed Book Lists, WNBA Great Group Reads
The Woman's National Book Association presents its list of Great Group Reads for National Reading Group Month

Reading Group Choices is pleased to share the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA) Great Group Reads 2020 list, part of their National Reading Group Month initiative!

This annual month-long celebration provides an opportunity for reading groups worldwide to celebrate their accomplishments and plan for the future. It’s also a perfect time to join or start a reading group! Every October, WNBA organizes events nationwide and announces an annual list of book selections for reading groups: Great Group Reads.

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Spotlighting a Giveaway Winner

September 30, 2024 Bookmark, Giveaway Winner

Giveaway Winner: A Little Free Library Community Collaboration


Junior Girl Scout Ashlyn poses next to the Little Free Library

Every month, Reading Group Choices collaborates with a publisher to give away books to our readers. This past August, in collaboration with Harper Perennial, Reading Group Choices ran a giveaway for 20 copies of The Shadow Key by Susan Stokes-Chapman. One of those copies found its way to a Little Free Library in Northern California with a great community behind it. Read more from the giveaway winner below!

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